Students already feeling the effects of Brexit

The vast majority of young Irish people studying overseas are based in Britain, and they face an uncertain future

AS THE short-lived contender for the leadership of the Conservatives in Britain, Andrea Leadsom will go down on the wrong page of history for proclaiming that motherhood would make her a better Brexit era prime minister than her childless rival, Theresa May.

Her logic — that being a parent gave her more of a stake in the future and thus more incentive to get things right — was widely rejected as crass and tactless.